Thoughts on NAACP chapter president pretending to be black?

Basically, a college professor of Africana studies, civil rights activist, and the Spokane, Washington NAACP chapter president has been living a lie. According to her parents she is of Swedish, German, and Czech ancestry. But she has chosen to live her life as a black woman and identifies as black.

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Pretending to be of another race is less of a leap than pretending to be of the opposite sex. It's pretty ironic that people who would denounce 'transphobia' are engaging in 'transracism'. Shame on them, LOL.

Her parents say they don't know why she did this. I think it's pretty obvious why. She clearly wants to be a victim. Unfortunately, many people these days have a sick desire to be victimized. They hate life and want to be destroyed.

I think it's terrible she stooped so low, i saw that on Channel 11 WPXI Newsthis morning and couldn't believe she do that cause it's not right and shedoes have mental health illnesses and belongs locked up..

The last time I heard the NAACP as an organization isn't pissed at her. That's what I got from the bottom lines of the CNN report in my update.And people create the term race, biologically there is one race, the human race. However, people can belong to different ethnicities. (that's my view on it)

Humanity is a species. Races are subdivisions, and they are very real. But I find it strange that race exists when blacks need privilege, but when white people organise racially they are either told that races do not exist or that they are Nazis.

Physical and geographical differences are real, what I'm getting at is that we aren't that different, we just adjusted to out environments. Anyways, you're generalizing. As someone who is part black, I don't even use the concept of race, and I especially don't use it to gain privilege. One of the main reasons black people came together was because they were uniting from oppression to strive for the betterment of their people.

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So she's not American, is less colored than Kim Kardashian, and is speaking for a group of people she can NEVER understand. I'm honestly having a hard time even understanding how crazy this lady is. Like, there are so many LAYERS. I'm so confused!

All I know for sure is she needs to resign so that organization can function as it should with the people at the head that should be. Ugh. What a messed up situation.

She is probably a cointelpro plant being used to make sure black people don't make too many moves. There is a reason for everything and I'm not fooled by her nice white lady act. She is being deceptive for a reason. Tell me why you would pretend to be black and join a political group for the advancement of colored people for shits and giggles.

@pr3ttybr0wn Because there are crazy fucking people in the world. There is an interracial couple who dress like moses and biblical characters and they walk around aimlessly. They are definitely not government operatives. Besides, the government would use an actual black agent on the payroll to infiltrate that organization, not a crazy white woman. Not to mention they can just monitor all electronic communications and financial records to ensure the NAACP, or any other organization, isn't up to anything other than peaceful political activity. With people like Jeff Fort and the El Rukns, I can't say I blame the government for doing it. All governments spy, it's what they do.

Not how it works. If I claimed to be Scottish, even though I have no Scottish ancestry and have never lived in Scotland, that would be a lie. Her claiming to be black is just as much of a lie, but even more offensive. Now, people do define their own gender. The way gender is constructed is far different than race. So no, people can't identify however they please.

Makes me fucking pissed really. Being black is not an accessory. I don’t care if she helped black people or not, you could do all of that without the get-up. I don’t buy it. She is as European as it gets, what the fuck really. “chosen to identify as black”, fuck off with the bullshit.

Never thought a Caucasian woman would want to be black, still pretty darn hilarious to me. Something's not really right upstairs. We'll be seeing her on Oprah or something in the next two months or less, guaranteed.